On Vascular Tumour of the Male Urethra.

Abstract

irtability of the gastro-intes mucous membrane, and as such is deservedly popular in the treatment of dyspeptic affections,.is, at the same time, a valuable remedy in cases of menorrhagia. He observes, indeed, that he had found it superior in such affections to all means which he had employed during an active professional life of more than thirty years. The efficacy of bismuth in similar affections, under certain circumstances, which I have myself personally witnessed, is in favour of the same doctrine; and, indeed, I think it may be conclusively shown from these and a variety of other circumstances, that many forms of menorrhagia owe their origin chiefly to an irmrtable or disturbed state of the stomach and digestive organs, and that where these pathological conditions coexist, we are by no means justified in assuming that the latter is the mere consequence of the former. On the other hand, the history of such cases, if carefully investigated, will often demonstrate that it had rather preceded than followed upon it; and this circumstance, which is especially shown in the foregoing cases, is of extreme importance in practice, for by bearing it in mind, we shall avoid directing our remedies merely to an effect or consequence, whilst the original cause is overlooked.